'My daughter's livid I didn't fight back when she got dress-coded at school'

08 September 2023 , 16:56

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As children go back to school, stories about ways kids have broken the dress codes are prolific - sparking debate about whether or not the parents were in the wrong. But when one mum found out that her daughter had been "dress-coded" and was forced to wear her gym clothes for the rest of the day, the mother found that she couldn't defend the "sheer" top that her daughter was wearing.

Taking to Reddit's 'Am I the A**hole' forum, the mum wanted to know whether she was in the wrong for not "sticking up for her" daughter when it came to her uniform mishap.

The mum wrote: "Am I the a**hole for agreeing with the school when they dress-coded my daughter and not fighting it? This is about my youngest, I would like to start off by saying the dress code is very reasonable, the rule is that you shouldn't be able to see undergarments, and this affects the guys more than the girls (the pants not being held up boxers are a thing). I have three kids and the older two have never been dress-coded.

"Now my daughter came home and she was in her gym clothes since she got dress-coded. She came with a school email and a picture of the shirt. They took the picture after my daughter changed and it was a swimtop coverup. It's sheer. This makes complete sense to me why she was dress-coded, she got a warning and that was that. Now my daughter and oldest daughter are p***ed that I didn't stick up for her. My sister is now on my a** since the kids told her and they all think I am a j**k."

In the comments, people defended the mum, saying that she wasn't doing anything wrong - she was just being a good mum. One wrote: "I don't see anything to fight here. The rules aren't unreasonable, your daughter wasn't wrongly accused of breaking them, and the punishment isn't going to have any long-term consequences on her education or well-being. You're not being a j**k, you're being a parent."

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Another commented: "These are also the fun little lessons in life that teach kids 'rules have consequences'. She knew where the line was, stuck a toe over it, and got slapped for it. Better to learn this lesson now than end up like any of the hundreds of young women on YouTube trying to reason and plead their way out of a DUI on the side of the road. That lesson is a LOT more painful."

Danielle Kate Wroe